OLD (1998-2012)

Thank you to the following sites for sending me visitors over the past few weeks. 56 – chancelucky.blogspot.com/29 – del.icio.us/20 – www.readersandwriters.org/blog/17 – passioncity.blogspot.com/12 – www.isystech.net/11 – forum.thespirit-online.com/index.php10 – readersandwriters.org/blog/9 – www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=18765693&site=28943848 – writersblogalliance.com/modules/news/8 – performancing.com/node/1688 – www.fantasyscribe.com/blog/6 – www.blogger.com/profile/98734455 … Read more …

A friend of mine, Kath, just sent me an email about the toughest sheriff in America. Considering I’ve just written about my views on prisoners and their punishments, I found it fascinating that she would forward me a ‘chain email’ … Read more …

Where the frack does this government get off on paying prisoners compensation for being put in solitary confinement. A law was passed in June this year (in NZ) that makes any successful prisoner compensation claims go to the victims of … Read more …

This is ‘series 2’. This is a photo of my friend Peter and I. We caught up before my birthday party and had a couple drinks. Unfortunately, the setting on the camera was incorrect, so there was some overexposure that … Read more …

I thought I’d better update this with the latest series of photos before I left for my holiday to Australia. Here’s ‘series 1’. This was a nice sunset I took. Pretty pink… A view of the houses on Mt Victoria, … Read more …

I have a meeting booked with the hiring manager for tomorrow. I have no rejection letter. I’m feeling good. 😀

Here’s an interesting intelligence report from stratfor.com: Military Lessons Learned in Iraq and Strategic Implications By George Friedman Among the things that emerge from every war, won or lost, are “lessons learned.” Each war teaches the military on both sides … Read more …

I had lunch with a friend today, and during the course of our conversations, she told me that what she likes about me is my consistency across the range of subjects I’m interested in. She said that in the same … Read more …

For a while now I’ve thought about the limitations of blogs (particularly blogspot.com blogs) at notifying people of recently made comments. How can you effectively involve yourself in a discussion on here if you are unaware of new comments that … Read more …

I was talking to my friend the bouncer about weapons. He watched Lord of War last night and is today entertaining delusions of grandeur by wanting to become an arms dealer. Funny guy. But talk turned to various arms, and … Read more …

You may have noticed – especially if your screen resolution is greater than 1024 – that this blog now spreads all the way across the screen, instead of being of a fixed size, plus I’ve changed the font type for … Read more …

[For every post that has something to do with the experiment, I’ll just call it ‘Million dollar experiment‘. Apologies for repeating the post title, but it seems appropriate.] Today Deidre’s work matters were resolved with a pleasing outcome. Due to … Read more …

The second interview was much better than the first. It was another scenario-based interview, where they provide scenarios or questions about my relevent experience, and I have to give examples from my past where I’ve actually done stuff suggesting I … Read more …